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Dreamed of Faeryland by William Butler Yeats: But while he passed before a plashy place, A lug-worm with its grey and muddy mouth Sang that somewhere to north...4 KB (555 words) - 16:58, 26 October 2023- Revisited (1945) and Officers and Gentlemen (1955). "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole", a line from one of Boot's countryside columns...11 KB (1,233 words) - 17:07, 12 May 2024
- through and around what is now known as Patriots Park: Just at this moment a plashy tramp by the side of the bridge caught the sensitive ear of Ichabod. In...11 KB (873 words) - 13:37, 11 April 2024
- style is typified in the notorious sentence "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole". After the Daily Beast's publisher mistakes...3 KB (374 words) - 17:10, 12 May 2024
- protagonist of Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop (1938) – "Feather-footed through the plashy fens passes the questing vole". The magazine contributed to raising awareness...3 KB (346 words) - 10:53, 17 January 2022
a visit from Edmund of York: Bid him – O, what? With all good speed at Plashy [sic] visit me. Alack, and what shall good old York there see, But empty...13 KB (1,586 words) - 15:18, 31 December 2023- Cowtail, a grazier A Schoolmaster A Serving-man A Whistler A Servant at Plashy House A Spruce Courtier His Horse Cynthia, prologue to the masque representing...18 KB (2,251 words) - 09:28, 11 February 2024
- plash + -y plashy (comparative more plashy, superlative most plashy) Watery, wet, waterlogged. Synonyms: drenched, saturated, sodden; see also Thesaurus:wet
- bliss; Nought but griefs wi' me remain. Spare my love, ye winds that blaw, Plashy sleets, and beating rain! Spare my love, thou feathery snaw, Drifting o'er
- plashy fen passes the questing vole. An oft-quoted example of William Boot's style. When first mentioned in the novel it is "splashy" and not "plashy"